Each brief has gone decently, however, I am also aware that I should have completely exploited them for all they were worth. The one brief that I feel is nearing this is the DIY brief. I am not a great packager but feel that this creates the aesthetic that i love. the greyboard case is not up to scratch but I plan to practice my packaging design for future potential.
Overall, I am happiest with DIY. The zines came out just I had initially intended, except for the printing of one zine per A4 sheet. Instead i printed colour variations of each DPS. This is not a real issue, just annoyed me slightly. The badges (not included in the box produced because i gave them all to testspace leeds for retail in conjunction with an exhibition.
The colour coding works really well and i plan to continue the idea until i cant think of any other topics.
Imbalance was also a visual step up for me. I have not, however, produced tags as i planned to, seemingly out of laziness. The full potential of the brief was definitely not reached. The designs could be printed on absolutely anything and i should have experimented a little bit more.
This can be a continuation after uni, simply for my website.
Also, I was annoyed at how poorly i mixed my screen printing ink in comparison to the digitally printed postcards and badges. I was trying to avoid a flamboyant pink as a means of not stereotyping too much.
Overall, i think that the pack does look relatively professional, if a little bit thrown together.
I really like the panoptic posters brief too. It is the first time i have tried two coloured screen printing and it was a bit iffy in places but i am really happy with how well the series worked together. One issue is definitely the legibility of the type - something that has happened due to my trying to not use my normal bubble writing style.
The booklet is simple in its layout, much like most of my other designs.
P.S. I love You was the most extravagant. I havent really tried anything like it before so it was very experiemental and i was quite happy with the results. It got exhibited and i gave out a few business cards so all in all, bit of a result. I produced the booklet after the event which is a shame but I wanted to do something else to help the brief. It was a bit of a nightmare to crop because of the lack of bleed and how thick the damn thing ended up being. I should have taken it even further with my own poster designs and flyers.
Really happy with the formats of everything in the module. Lots of squares for some reason, I guess Fred's rants about A-format sank in a bit.
Yeah, its been a decent module. I've been up and down the productive scale, as per usual, but I am really happy with my final resolutions and feel that that answer each brief but do not really exploit the potential.
